Here's how you make a wicked MJ. (Note:
Don't drive or ride a horse or operate heavy machinery after this;
don't ingest with anything that will exceed your tolerance for total
number of chemicals in the body!) Boil a little bit of water with some washed and dried, torn up, fresh, nice
looking mint leaves, to create a strong mint tea and
then put it in a cup . (Note:
Mint leaves are not always that easy to get, and when you get a bunch,
many leaves are often wilted, or blackened. It's important to select the
best leaves even if that is only a fraction of the bunch of mint in the
package.)Add quite a bit of sugar. (Optionally --
ideally, in fact -- some sugar could be replaced with a half jigger of a
sweet liqueur like Cointreau, Drambuie, or Grand Marnier.) Add about a half jigger of a good Kentucky Bourbon. (After trying quite I few, I found that my favorite is definitely Maker's Mark.) Add this mixture with some additional torn up, fresh, nice looking mint leaves to ice in a crusher.

Crush
the mixture of sweetened mint tea, and bourbon to make a tall glass
worth of flavored crushed ice. Take a tall, chilled glass, add a long
straw, fill the glass with the crushed ice, and then pour in a jigger
more bourbon to fill up the cracks. Turn on the pre-race show, and enjoy
it!

It's matter of taste what you eat with the drink, if
anything. My own preference is Greek or similar appetizers. In the New
York area, Molyvos probably has the best selection of
appetizers I know of. Near Carnegie Hall, they do provide food to go if
that's how you want to enjoy the Derby.